Irish–English dictionary

cois

Next to; at the side of.

coisbheart

Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.

coisc

(transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). [from 14th c.]

coisc (ar)

(transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.

coisceas

(physics) A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.

coiscthe

Not allowed; specifically disallowed.

coisctheach

That inhibits.

coisí

A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle.

cóisir

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

coisreacan

The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

coisric

(transitive) To declare something holy, or make it holy by some procedure.

coisricthe

Characterized by solemn religious ceremony or religious use, especially, in a positive sense; consecrated, made holy.

cóiste

A wheeled vehicle, generally pulled by a horse.

cóiste marbh

A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

coiteann

Pertaining to or deriving from the people or general public. [from 16th c.]

coitianta

(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.

cóitseálaí

(originally, Oxford University, _, slang) A trainer or instructor.

col

(geography) A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.

col ceathar

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

col ceathrair

(specifically) When used without a qualifying word: the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a first cousin.

colach

Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.

colaí

The state of being wicked; evil disposition; immorality.

colaimbín

Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.

coláisteach

Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education. [First attested in the late 16th century.]

coláisteánach

A student (or a former student) of a college

colann

A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.

Colaradó

A state in the western United States, the 38th state. Capital and largest city: Denver.

Colasaem

The largest stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.

colbha

A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.

colbha bóthair

The area on either side of a road.

colbha cathrach

A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.

colg

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

colgach

Troubled, irritated by something unwanted or unliked (an annoyance); vexed.

colgaí

The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability.

Colgán

(constellation) A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish. It lies between the constellations Pictor and Reticulum, and is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

coll

The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

colláid

Discussion, light meal.

collaíocht

The state of being carnal.

colláis

A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.

collóideach

(physical chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.

Colm

(constellation) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.

colmán

(countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

colmlann

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

colmóir

One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

Colóim

A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Colombia. Capital: Bogotá.

Colómach

Of, from or relating to Colombia.

Colombo

The commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

colpach

An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old).

colscaradh

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

colúil

Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.

colún

(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

colúnaí

A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

colúnra

A series of columns at regular intervals.

colúr

(countable) One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.

Comaoineach a ghlacadh

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]

comh-

Together: the root word is done co-incidently.

comh-airde

(music, acoustics) Identical pitch between two notes or sounds; the simultaneous playing of notes of identical pitch (or separated by one or more octaves). [from 15th c.]

comh-aireacht

(politics, often, capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.

comhábhar

One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.

comhair

(transitive) To reckon, calculate.

comhaireamh

(countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.

comhaisnéis

(grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.

cómhalartacht

The property of being mutual.

comhalta

One who belongs to a group.

comhaltas

(math) The fact of being a member of a set.

comhaois

One who is the same age as another.

comhaontach

Based on unanimity, assent or agreement.

comhaontaigh

(transitive) Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.

comhaontas

(uncountable) The state of being allied.

comhaosta

Of the same age or era; contemporary.

comharsanacht

The characteristic of being neighborly.

comhartha an Stoidiaca

(astrology) Any of twelve signs, corresponding to constellations, that are used as the basis of astrology

comhartha broinne

A mark on the skin formed before birth.

comhartha focalbhá

(typography, mathematics) A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.

comharthaí

(legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

comharthaí aithne

(legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

comharthaí sóirt

(legal) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance

comharthaíocht

(uncountable) Signs, particularly those imparting commercial, directional, or road traffic information, taken collectively.

comhbhách

Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

comhbhraiteach

Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.

comhchaidreamh

(countable) The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.

comhchathair

A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

comhchealgaire

One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.

comhcheangailte

Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.

comhcheangal

The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.

comhcheilg

(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.

comhchiallach

(taxonomy, by extension) Any name that has been applied to a taxon other than the one to be used, including those not allowed by the rules such as misspellings or nomina nuda.

comhchogar

(loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.

comhchoirí

(legal) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

comhchoiteann

Shared by a community; public.

comhchruinnigh

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

comhchruthach

Exhibiting symmetry; having harmonious or proportionate arrangement of parts; having corresponding parts or relations.

comhchuibheacht

A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

comhchuingiú

(biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.

comhdháil

(often, capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.

comhdhéanamh

A work of music, literature or art. [from 17th c.]

comhdhlúthaigh

(transitive) To make more dense; to compress.

comhdhlúthú

The act or process of condensing or of being condensed

comhdhúil

(chemistry) A substance formed by chemical bonding of two or more elements in definite proportions by weight.

comhdhuille

the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub

comhéifeacht

(mathematics) A constant by which an algebraic term is multiplied.

comhfhios

(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.

comhghairdeas

Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.

comhghairm

(transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.

comhghleacaí

A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.

comhghníomhú

A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.

comhghoilliúnach

Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.

comhghuaillíocht

(uncountable) The state of being allied.

comhionann

Corresponding in character; congruous.

comhionannas

The quality of agreeing or corresponding; being suitable and appropriate.

comhla

(plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

comhla chatha

A chief support.

comhla loic

An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.

comhla uisce

An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.

comhlacht

An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]

comhlán

Filled to satiety.

Comhlathas na mBahámaí

An archipelago and country in the Caribbean. Official name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

comhlíon

(transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.

comhlíonadh

The act of fulfilling or the state or quality of being fulfilled; consummation; completion; realization.

comhluadar

A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.

comhordán

(mathematics, cartography, astronomy, geography) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.

comhrá

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. [from 16th c.]

comhrac

(military) Combat.

comhrac aonair

Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.

comhraic

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

comhráiteach

(linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.

comhréir

(countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

comhréireach

(science, and, social science, of a study) Sampling data over time rather than merely once.

comhréiteach

A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

comhrian

A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.

comhshamhlú

(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

comhshíneas

(trigonometry) In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos

comhshuí

(linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words. [from 16th c.]

comhtheacht

A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.

comhthiomsaitheach

(algebra, of a binary operator *) Such that, for any operands a, b and c, (a * b) * c = a * (b * c); (of a ring, etc.) whose multiplication operation is associative.

comhthiomsú

(uncountable) The act of associating.

comhthionól

A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.

comhthoiliúil

With permission, with consensus, without coercion; allowed without objecting or resisting.

comhuaineach

(computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.

comórtas

(countable) A contest for a prize or award.

compal

(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.

compánachas

The state of having or being a companion.

compántas

A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.

comparáid

Something identical or similar in essential respects.

compás

A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

compord

Contentment, ease.

compordach

Providing physical comfort and ease; agreeable. [from 18th c.]

comrádaí

A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

comrádaí seomra

A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.

comrádaí tí

Someone living in the same house.